On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:23 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Monday, April 10, 2006 1:52 PM -0700 Robinson Tiemuqinke > <hahaha_30k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc the argument to SMARTHOST > > should be '[smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com]', while in > > /etc/mail/authinfo we can not use > > smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com directly b/c it is just an > > alias name, instead, we should use the DNS resolved > > true name that it points to. > > I don't recall seeing square brackets in a SMARTHOST example before. Does > SMARTHOST go through MX processing, such that the brackets are needed if > one intends the name to be interpreted as the final mail host? (I'm > familiar with square brackets in mailertable.) Or another option is to use a mail client like evolution which is set up to do this (I do this) and not screw around with sendmail at all. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
